Missouri state rep shares article calling Abraham Lincoln a 'tyrant'

[TexasTowelie]

A Republican in the Missouri House of Representatives celebrated Abraham Lincoln's birthday by sharing a blog post that calls the 16th president the "greatest tyrant and despot in American history."

Warren Love, an Osceola Republican, shared the post, which concludes with a lament that "John Wilkes Booth did not act four years earlier," on his Facebook account. Stephen Webber, the chair of the Missouri Democratic Party, took a screenshot of Love's post that he shared on Twitter.

Link to tweet

The article, "The Terrible Truth About Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate War" was written by Michael Hutcheson, a conservative blogger in Atlanta with 73 followers on Twitter. Hutcheson is the kind of writer who thinks it's clever to state, "I oppose Barack Obama because he's black" only to then expose the "true" racists — the "blindly loyal supporters of Obama who ignore all of his disastrous policies and their terrible consequences," etc., etc.

When he initially shared Hutcheson's essay, Love cut and pasted a passage from the article in his status update without putting the words in quotation marks. Love said he would edit the Facebook post to make it clear the words were the writer's, not his.

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